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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus

Modern Wisdom

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I Love to Draw and Paint, but I Don't Know My Grandma

In 19 63, neither of my grandmothers was allowed to have a bank account because they were married women. My swiss grandmother wasn't even allowed to vote. And both of them had left school when they were 13 - no one gave a shit about girls being able to learn anything. So how did we get to the change? When my niece does have lots of margins? She told him to fuck off. All the boys round sided with her. A complete transformation. It didn't happen becauseLots of women made isolated individual changes. It happened ecause lots of women banded together and said, we're not gongtoFuck in t aint this any more. That's how

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